GC21E
Global Change Scenarios for the United States: Current Activities and Future Directions in Content and Methods For Research, Assessment, and Decision Support I

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
3005 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Christopher P Weaver, U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Richard H Moss, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States, Bernice Rosenzweig, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States and Donald J Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Chairs:  Christopher P Weaver, US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States and Bernice Rosenzweig, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Christopher P Weaver, US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States
08:00
Scenarios and US National Climate Assessments: Where have they been and where could they go? (Invited) (64687)
Allison K Leidner, Universities Space Research Association Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States; NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States
08:15
The Development of Climate Scenarios for the National Climate Assessment (Invited) (66096)
David R Easterling, NOAA Asheville, Asheville, NC, United States and Kenneth Kunkel, CICS-NC/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States
08:30
New Methods for Crafting Locally Decision-Relevant Scenarios (76019)
Robert J Lempert, RAND Corporation Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA, United States
08:45
NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) Supporting Analyses for National Climate Assessments (80537)
Ramakrishna R Nemani1, Bridget L Thrasher2, Weile Wang3, Tsengdar J Lee4, Forrest S Melton5, Jennifer L Dungan1 and Andrew Michaelis5, (1)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Self Employed, Washington, DC, United States, (3)CSUMB & NASA/AMES, Seaside, CA, United States, (4)NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States, (5)California State University Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States
09:15
States at Risk: America’s Preparedness Report Card (73087)
Rita M.S. Yu1,2, Ben Strauss1, Scott Andrew Kulp1 and James Bronzan1, (1)Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)University of Washington Seattle Campus, JISAO, Seattle, WA, United States
09:30
The creation of reasonable projections toward sustainable development considering the climate and socioeconomic changes in the Pacific Islands (76893)
Satoshi Watanabe1, Akiko Iida1, Jun Nakatani1, Keigo Noda1, Masanori Take2 and Shinichiro Nakamura3, (1)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (2)University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, (3)Nagoya University, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya, Japan
09:45
Modeling Urban Energy Savings Scenarios using Earth System Microclimate and Urban Morphology (70749)
Melissa R Allen1, Amy N Rose1, Marcia L Branstetter1, Jiangye Yuan1, Joshua R New1, Olufemi Omitaomu1 and Thomas J Wilbanks2, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States